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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... $US1.2413 from $US1.2484 late in New York on Wednesday. HONG KONG - Asian markets were mixed following a record close on Wall Street, while profit-taking sent Japan's Nikkei to its first loss since last week and the US dollar retreated after breaking ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
The Australian market looks set to open slightly lower after mainly negative performance on Wall Street as oil prices slump. At 0828 AEST on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was down six points at 5,501. In local economic news ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
The Australian market looks set to open slightly higher after Wall Street gained more than one per cent following the Bank of Japan's surprise stimulus announcement ignited a rally on global stock exchanges. At 0818 AEST on Monday, the December share ...

Real stagflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... to end its quantitative easing programme. And we all know, where there's meat... there's a barbecue. This is exactly what Wall Street did overnight - it partied from the get go, led by the Dow's 1.3% jump. US real GDP increased at annualised 3.5% in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street rallied as data showed faster-than-estimated economic growth, fuelling speculation the economy is strong enough to withstand higher interest rates. At 0812 AEST on Friday, the December ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... Company would invest $US500 million ($A540.98 million) in Australia's Coca-Cola Amatil to help it expand in Indonesia. On Wall Street on Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 31.44 points, or 0.18 per cent, to 16,974.31 points after the US ...

QEnd is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... QE3, it's now at 5.9% But whatever happened to the Fed worries revealed in the minutes of its September FOMC meeting? As the Wall Street Journal succinctly put it: "Several officials worried at a Sept. 16-17 policy meeting that disappointing growth in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat following falls on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve confirmed it would end its asset-buying program. At 0808 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up two points at 5,431. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher after Wall Street rose on upbeat US consumer confidence. The US consumer confidence index has leapt from 89.0 in September to 94.5 in October, giving US equities a solid boost overnight. The positive sentiment ...

ECB QE go riding on Fed QE stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
It's a wrap! QE is. Looking at Wall Street's performance overnight - the Dow and the S&P 500 up more than 1.0%, the Nasdaq up nearly 2.0% (rounded) and the Russell 2000 up nearly 3.0% (rounded) - the men and women at the Fed must be patting each other's ...